Medal of Honor: Allied Assault bust onto the scene less than 2 years ago and changed the way I think of Medal of Honor forever. It also helped open my eyes to the amount of fine FPS games made every year. Now, please – clear the raft! Gameplay – Medal of Honor takes all the great elements from gaming design. It includes run and gun sections, storied sections, makes thing epic, give you allies, changes the settings, and includes plenty of strategic value for the more difficult parts of the game (at least strategic for a first person shooter!) Overall, Medal of Honor is just a really well put together first person shooter from the level design, environment, AI, and objective standpoints. Graphics – Medal of Honors graphics aren’t half bad even for today and back when it was released they were some of the best. Bring dynamic lighting, volumetric smokes, AI that could understand that lighting, and plenty of well crafted models and textures Allied Assault brings World War 2 to life like never before. All the locations in the game look excellent from the snowy Norwegian U-boats bases and their interiors to the muddy beaches of Normandy filled with obstacles and bunkers to clear out. The biggest innovation for the game though, is its wide variety of animations couple with a location-based hit system and you’ve got the most realistic looking deaths we’ve seen. Sound – Allied Assault is probably the best sounding game ever made as far as scores and sound effects go. The weapons are ultra-realistic sounding taken straight from the source, the voiceovers aren’t bad and Germans actually speak in German, and to top it off the score of near movie caliber and the best ever heard of in a video game (at least till Frontline came out.) Value – Medal of Honor is of decent length, but its multiplayer out of the box is quite lacking. The map design doesn’t fit in all that well with the game and the weapons setup interface and ease-of-use are quiet poor making Allied Assaults biggest weakness its average value (for the original $50 price point.) The bottom line is that Medal of Honor: Allied is one of the best shooters to date on the PC or any console and certainly worth picking up for such a small fare these days.
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This game was the first WWII Shooter I've ever played, and since then, I just couldn't get enough of it. It isn't as great as Call of Duty, as I realized when I got a demo of it, but it was still top-notch. What reall... Read Full Review
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